Professor David Oliver is a Consultant in Geriatrics and General Internal Medicine and a former clinical vice president of the RCP and past-president of the British Geriatrics Society having also been its honorary secretary.

David is a visiting fellow at the King's Fund, alongside his clinical job as an NHS consultant in geriatrics and general internal medicine at the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust, where he was also lead clinician and clinical director.

A hospital doctor since 1989, David was a consultant and clinical director at South London NHS Trust from 1998 to 2004 and was the Department of Health national clinical director for older people from 2009 to 2013. He has just finished 3 years as specialist clinical adviser for the NHS Emergency Care Improvement Partnership, visiting and working with over 30 acute hospitals and healthcare systems.